The Economy: My Opinion v.1

I think I’ve figured out why the American economy is going down.  Basically, its comes down to California and its stereotypes. New York can can be semi included in this argument as well.  Since Cali is a lot more liberal, based on stereotypes, then a lot of other states, that mentality spread throughout the rest of the US.  Now people want to be free from the chains of America i.e. Oppressors of the gov’t, and the regular 9 to 5.  Then they stopped working.  They wanted everyone to adopt a mentality of “finding their true path in life”.  Because of this, they didn’t work and partied and took away from the labor force of America.  This eventually led to the decline of many businesses and eventually the entire economy.  I’ve never been there but from what I’ve seen in the movie Blow and from Cali people I know who like to defend everything and believe that everyone is “ok”.  What happened to the cutthroat attitude that powered America starting in the 1930’s until just recently?  People started getting soft.  I’m not saying to stop being ethical and moral in your decision-making (which is another phenomenom that emerged in the late 1990’s), just a little more agressive.  People started caring for others feelings.  Feelings don’t belong in the business world, unless its just blatant discrimination.  Man up everyone, this is business, not friends.  Friends and business don’t mix.  No one was complaining when we were in WWII and everyone wanted to help out.  Do we always need a cause to do everything?  I think the baby boomer generation developed a great formula.  Go to school, get a good education, and get a job, save and retire.  Sure this prohibits a few things like happiness, temporarily.  But learning how to work the system can help that.  Then we get back to cutthroadedness AKA no bitchassness.